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Order of battle of the Imperial Russian Army (1812)

The Imperial Russian Army in June 1812 consisted of three main armies and other military formations. The Commander in Chief of the Army was Emperor Alexander I.

[[First Western Army]]

General of the Infantry Prince Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly

1st Infantry Corps: Lieutenant General Count Peter Wittgenstein

Division	Brigade	Regiment
5th Infantry	1st	Sevsk Grenadier
Kaluga Infantry
2nd	Perm Infantry
Mogilev Infantry
3rd	23rd Jäger
24th Jäger
14th Infantry	1st	Tula Infantry
Navaginsky Infantry
2nd	Riga Infantry
Tenginsky Infantry
3rd	25th Jäger
26th Jäger

Corps Artillery: Nine companies, two pontoon and one pioneer companies
1st Cavalry Division: Major General Pyotr Kahovskiy
- 1st and 5th Cavalry Brigades
  - Riga and Yamburg Dragoon Regiments, Grodno Hussar Regiment and three Cossack Regiments
2nd Infantry Corps: Lieutenant General Karl Gustav von Baggovut

Division	Brigade	Regiment
4th Infantry	1st	Kremenchug Infantry
Minsk Infantry
2nd	Tobolsk Infantry
Volhynia Infantry
3rd	4th Jäger
34th Jäger
17th Infantry	1st	Ryazan Infantry
Belozersk Infantry
2nd	Brest Infantry
Villmanstrand Infantry
3rd	30th Jäger
48th Jäger

Corps Artillery: Seven companies
Elizabethgrad Hussar Regiment
3rd Infantry Corps: Lieutenant General Nikolai Tuchkov

Division	Brigade	Regiment
1st Grenadier	1st	Life Grenadiers
Arakcheyev Grenadier
2nd	Pavlovsky Grenadier
Yekaterinoslav Grenadier
3rd	Saint Petersburg Grenadier
Taurida Grenadier
3rd Infantry	1st	Reval Infantry
Murom Infantry
2nd	Chernigov Infantry
Koporye Infantry
3rd	20th Jäger
21st Jäger

Corps Artillery: Eight companies
Life Guard Cossack Regiment and one Cossack regiment
4th Infantry Corps: Lieutenant General Count Pavel Shuvalov

Division	Brigade	Regiment
11th Infantry	1st	Kexholm Infantry
Pernau Infantry
2nd	Polotsk Infantry
Yelets Infantry
3rd	1st Jäger
33rd Jäger
23rd Infantry	1st
2nd
3rd

Corps Artillery: Six companies
5th Reserve Guards Infantry Corps: Grand Duke Constantine Pavlovich of Russia

Division	Brigade	Life Guards Regiment
Guard Infantry	1st Guards Infantry	Preobrazhensky
Semyonovsky
2nd Guards Infantry	Izmailovsky
Lithuanian
3rd Guards Infantry	Finnish
Jager
1st Combined Grenadier	1st	26 combined
2nd
3rd
1st Cuirassier	Guard Brigade	Chevalier Guard
Life Guard Horse
1st Brigade	Emperor Life Guard
Empress Life Guard
Astrakhan Cuirassier

Corps Artillery: Four foot and two horse companies, one pioneer company
6th Infantry Corps: General of infantry Dmitry Dokhturov

Division	Brigade	Regiment
7th Infantry	1st	Moscow Infantry
Pskov Infantry
2nd	Libau Infantry
Sofia Infantry
3rd	11th Jäger
36th Jäger
24th Infantry	1st	Ufa Infantry
Shirvan Infantry
2nd	Butyrsky Infantry
Tomsk Infantry
3rd	19th Jäger
40th Jäger

Corps Artillery: Seven companies
Sumy Hussar Regiment
1st Reserve Cavalry Corps: General aide-de-camp Fyodor Uvarov
- 1st Guards Cavalry Brigade
  - Life Guard Dragoon, Life Guard Hussar and Life Guard Uhlan Regiments
- Brigade
  - Kazan and Nezhin Dragoon Regiments
- Corps Artillery: One company
2nd Reserve Cavalry Corps: General aide-de-camp Baron Fyodor Korf
- 6th Cavalry Brigade
  - Pskov and Moscow Dragoon Regiments
- 7th Cavalry Brigade
  - Kargopol and Ingermanland Dragoon Regiments
- Brigade
  - Izyum Hussar and Polish Uhlan Regiments
- Corps Artillery: One company
3rd Reserve Cavalry Corps: Major General Count Peter Petrovich Pahlen
- Brigade
  - Courland and Orenburg Dragoon Regiments
- Brigade
  - Siberia and Irkutsk Dragoon Regiments
- Brigade
  - Mariupol Hussar Regiment
- Corps Artillery: One company
Artillery Reserve: Count Kutaisov
- 21 foot and five horse artillery companies
Flying Cossack Corps: General of Cavalry Count Matvei Platov Source:

Source:

[[Second Western Army]]

General of the Infantry Prince Pyotr Bagration

7th Infantry Corps: Lieutenant General Nikolay Raevsky
- 12th Infantry Division: Major General Illarion Vasilievich Vasilchokov
  - 1st Brigade
    - Smolensk and Narva Infantry Regiments
  - 2nd Brigade
    - Aleksopol and New Ingermanland Infantry Regiments
  - 3rd Brigade
    - 6th and 41st Jäger Regiments
- 26th Infantry Division: Major General Ivan Paskevich
  - 1st Brigade
    - Ladoga and Poltava Infantry Regiments
  - 2nd Brigade
    - Nizhny Novgorod and Oryol Infantry Regiments
  - 3rd Brigade
    - 3rd, 5th and 42nd Jäger Regiments
- Corps Artillery: Unknown
8th Infantry Corps: Lieutenant General Mikhail Borozdin
- 2nd Grenadier Division: Major General Prince Karl von Mecklenburg
  - 1st Grenadier Brigade
    - Crimea and Moscow Grenadier Regiments
  - 2nd Grenadier Brigade
    - Astrakhan and Phanagoria Grenadier Regiments
  - 3rd Grenadier Brigade
    - Siberia and Little Russia Grenadier Regiments
- 27th Infantry Division: Major General Dmitry Petrovich Neverovsky
  - 1st Brigade
    - Odessa and Zhitomir (or Tarnopol) Infantry Regiments
  - 2nd Brigade
    - Vilna and Simbirsk Infantry Regiments
  - 3rd Brigade
    - 49th and 50th Jäger Regiments
- 3rd Grenadier Division
  - 22 combined grenadier battalions
- Corps Artillery: Five companies
- 2nd Cuirassier Division: Major General Ilya Mikhailovich Duka
  - 2nd Brigade
    - Yekaterinoslav and Military Order Cuirassier Regiments
  - 3rd Brigade
    - Glukhov, Little Russia and Novgorod Cuirassier Regiments
4th Reserve Cavalry Corps: Major General Count Karl Sivers
- 12th Cavalry Brigade
  - Kharkov and Chernigov Dragoon Regiments
- 13th Cavalry Brigade
  - Kiev and New Russian Dragoon Regiments
- Cavalry Brigade
  - Akhtyrka Hussar and Lithuanian Uhlan Regiments
- Corps Artillery: One company
Cossack detachment: Major General Ivan K. Krasnov Source:

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[[Third Reserve Army of Observation|3rd Reserve Observation Army]]

General of cavalry Alexander Tormasov

Infantry Corps: General of Infantry Sergei Kamensky
- 18th Infantry Division
  - 1st Brigade
    - Vladimir and Tambov Infantry Regiments
  - 2nd Brigade
    - Kostroma and Dnieper Infantry Regiments
  - 3rd Brigade
    - 28th and 32nd Jäger Regiments
- Combined Grenadier Division
  - 18 combined grenadier battalions
- Corps Artillery: Four companies
- Pavlograd Hussar Regiment
Infantry Corps: Lieutenant General Yevgeni Ivanovich Markov
- 9th Infantry Division
  - 1st Brigade
    - Nasheburg and Yakutsk Infantry Regiments
  - 2nd Brigade
    - Apsheron and Ryazhsk Infantry Regiments
  - 3rd Brigade
    - 10th and 38th Jäger Regiments
- 15th Infantry Division
  - 1st Brigade
    - Kozlov and Vitebsk Infantry Regiments
  - 2nd Brigade
    - Kura and Kolyvan Infantry Regiments
  - 3rd Brigade
    - 13th and 14th Jäger Regiments
- Corps Artillery: Seven companies
- Alexandria Hussar Regiment
Infantry Corps: Lieutenant General Baron Fabian Gottlieb von Osten-Sacken
- 36th Infantry Division
  - Unknown composition
- 11th Cavalry Division
  - Lubny Hussar Regiment, other units unknown
- Corps Artillery: Two companies
Cavalry Corps: Major General Count Charles de Lambert
- 5th Cavalry Division
  - 15th Cavalry Brigade
    - Starodub and Tver Dragoon Regiments
  - 16th Cavalry Brigade
    - Arzamas and Zhitomir Dragoon Regiments
  - 17th Cavalry Brigade
    - Vladimir, Taganrog and Serpukhov Dragoon Regiments and Tartar Uhlan Regiment
- Nine Cossack regiments Source:

Danube Army

The Danube Army, commanded by Admiral Pavel Chichagov, included the:

1st Corps (General of cavalry Count Andrault de Langeron); made up of the:
- 22nd Infantry Division
2nd Corps (Lieutenant General Count Pyotr Essen);
3rd Corps (Lieutenant General Alexander Voinov);
4th Corps (Lieutenant General Andreas Burchard Friedrich von Saß (Andrey Pavlovich Zass)); made up of the:
- 8th Infantry Division
- 7th Cavalry Division
Reserve of the Army (Lieutenant General Ivan Sabaneev)

Separate Corps and detachments

Riga Corps (Lieutenant General Magnus Gustav (Ivan) von Essen)

Finland Corps

The Finland Corps consisted of the following units, under the command of Lieutenant General (Faddey) Fabian Steinheil:

6th Infantry Division
- 1st Brigade
  - Bryansk and Nizov Infantry Regiments
- 3rd Brigade
  - Azov Infantry and 3rd Jager Regiments
- 6th Field Artillery Brigade
  - 6th Heavy and 11th Light Batteries
21st Infantry Division
- 1st Brigade
  - Petrovsk and Podolia Infantry Regiments
- 2nd Brigade
  - Neva and Lithuania Infantry Regiments
- 3rd Brigade
  - 2nd and 44th Jager Regiments
- 21st Field Artillery Brigade
  - 21st Heavy and 40th Light Batteries
25th Infantry Division
- 1st Brigade
  - 1st and 2nd Marine Regiments
- 2nd Brigade
  - 3rd Marine and Voronezh Infantry Regiments
- 3rd Brigade
  - 31st and 47th Jager Regiments

25th Field Artillery Brigade

27th Cavalry Brigade

Finland and Mitava Dragoon Regiments

Isaev II, Loshchilin, and Kiselev II Don Cossack Regiments

Other separate units

1st Reserve Corps (Adjutant General Baron Yegor Meller-Zakomelsky);
2nd Reserve Corps (Lieutenant General Fyodor Ertell);
Bobruysk detachment (Major General Gavriil Ignatyev);
Smolensk Reserve Corps (General aide-de-camp Baron Ferdinand von Wintzingerode);
Kaluga Reserve Corps (General of infantry Count of Serbian origin Mikhail Miloradovich);
27th Infantry Division (Major General Dmitry Neverovsky);
Serbian detachment (Major General Nikolai Liders)

References

Michael de Tolly was appointed the [[commander-in-chief]] of the 1st Army on 19 March 1812. However, after arrival of Emperor Alexander I in [[Vilnius]], the latter became de jure and de facto a commander-in-chief.
In June 1812 the 1st Infantry Corps was excluded from the 1st Army and left by the [[Northern Dvina]] for protection of [[Saint Petersburg]]
Riehn, Richard. (1991). "1812: Napoleon's Russian Campaign". John Wiley & Sons.
the correct name for both the town and the regiment is "Kargopol"
link. Podmazo. Alexander. (22 April 2003)

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